Wellington City Council and Music
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Enjoy the busker’s buzz on Courtenay Place this weekend
- Wellington City Council
- A line-up of Wellington’s finest talent is adding to the buzz in the Courtenay Precinct on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Courtenay Place, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Restoring Wellington’s vital organ
- Wellington City Council
- The year was 1906. The most intricate technologies of the time were pipe organs, steam engines, and clocks. Yet, 15 years before we had radio in New Zealand, Wellington had music from the Town Hall organ.
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Wellington Town Hall, 109, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Busker’s legacy acknowledged with plaque and exhibition
- Wellington City Council
- Kenny the Busker will be immortalised with a plaque installed in Courtenay Place and his controversial amplifier going on display in an exhibition at Wellington Museum’s The Attic this week.
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Council helps the bands play on in the capital
- Wellington City Council
- With 20,000 gigs cancelled around Aotearoa during COVID-19 restrictions, Wellington City Council’s support of local independent music venues and talent has helped the bands play on.
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Tribute to an adopted homeland
- Wellington City Council
- For a young boy immigrating from the other side of the world, the memory of sailing into Wellington Harbour 60 years ago is something musician Paul Schreuder has never forgotten.
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Post Covid-19 support for music venues
- Wellington City Council
- Four of Wellington’s independent live music venues have been given a helping hand with funding to ease the blow dealt by the Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions.
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Wellington's hunt for a 'catchy wee ditty'
- Wellington City Council
- Love that 80s sound? Love municipally minded lyrics? Well, have we got the song for you! Re-introducing the original Wellington song, We are Wellington, a toe-tapping singalong for the civic-minded music connoisseur.
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